Barberino’s second work, _Del Reggimento e dei Costumi delle Donne_, furnishes, strange to say, hardly any express rules for conduct, at table; but some details may, for our general purpose, be picked out of an emporium whose abundance can be surmised from the following programme. ‘I will divide this work into 20 parts: And each part Shall present certain distinct grades, As the foregoing reading shows, The 1st will relate how a girl Should conduct herself When she begins to appreciate right and wrong, And to fear shame. 2nd, How, when She comes to a marriageable age. 3rd, How, when she has passed. The period for marriage. 4th, if, after she has given up the hope of ever Obtaining a husband, it happens That yet she gets one, and remains At home awhile before going to him. The 5th, How, after she is married; And how the first, and how The second and third, Up to fifteen days; and the first month, And the second and third; And how on to her end: Both before having children, and afterwards, and if she Has none: and how in old age. The 6th, How, if she loses her husband: And how if she is old; And how if she is of middle age; And how if she is left young; And how if she has children; And how if she is a grandmother; And how if she still Remains mistress of her husband’s property; And if she, being a widow, takes The garb of religion. The 7th sets forth How she should comport herself If she marries again; And how if to a better [husband], And how if to a worse And less wealthy one; And how if she yet goes to a third; And how, after she has become a widow, And has again taken a husband, She remains awhile at home Before going to him; And how far re-marrying is praised or blamed. 8th, How, she Who assumes the habit Of a religious order at home; And how this is praised or no. 9th, How, being shut up in a monastery In perpetual reclusion; And how the Abbess, Superior, and Prioress, And every other Portress or Nun. 10th, How she Who secludes herself alone Is named a Hermitess; and wherein this is to blame. 11th, How The maid who is In companionship with a lady; And how if she is alone, And how if one among others in the like office. 12th, How Every serving-woman shall conduct herself, Whether serving a lady alone, or a lady along With the master; and also if any, by herself, Serves a master; and how This is to be praised, and how not. 13th, How, A nurse in the house, and how apart. 14th, How, The female serf or slave;[38] And how, being a serf, She may afterwards, through her conduct, obtain her liberty. 15th, How Every kind of woman Of the common sort should behave, And of a lower and poorer sort; and all Save the bad ones of dissolute life Who sell their honour for money,— Whom I do not purpose To put in writing, Nor to make any mention of them, For they are not worthy to be named.